Philip John

Category: Thoughts

  • IE8: Saviour of the Semantic Web, or Usability Nightmare?

    I’ve been pushing web standards for years, so the news that Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer 8 will support W3C guidelines by default is very welcome from where I’m sitting. There is one problem, though. They’ve announced that sites including CNN, Facebook and MySpace won’t work correctly. Users of the browser will have to choose to view…

  • This Will Stop You Having Regrets

    My Mom once told me that jealousy is a wasted emotion. It’s true, and it helped to open my eyes. That and show me another trait I’ve inherited from my Dad. In a similar vein I’ve always thought that having regrets is pointless. Instead, learning from our mistakes is better. To that end I’ve always…

  • Feels Like Home

    It’s funny how you get that ‘feels like home’ feeling. Come Wednesday I’ll have lived (apart from a short stint from March to October of this year) in Lichfield for 3 years. Today, I’m back at my parents house where I lived for 20 years. The house I was very nearly born in. I feel…

  • While eBay Stumbles Off, I Might Stumble Back… Upon StumbleUpon

    eBay wants to get rid of StumbleUpon, but do StumbleUpon’s recent service announcements make the service more attractive to the users? And can they attract the millions of users they’ve lost in the last year?

  • The Evolution of Orange Juice… Oh and the Internet

    Never has orange juice been so relevant to the internet. Orange juice cartons are evolving. We no longer have to live with spilt orange juice all over our kitchen surfaces. The same goes for the internet… What?!

  • Ethics and Corporation Tax

    One thing that really bugs me is tax avoidance. I used to think it was a great idea until one day, whilst having an inner groan at the constant lack of cash in public services I realised that avoiding tax is, in fact, incredibly unethical and irresponsible. Taxes, whether you like them or not, are…

  • Tagging Alzheimer’s Sufferers

    Having a Dad with Pick’s disease my eye was caught this morning by a headline from the BBC, charity supports dementia tagging, which reports the news that the Alzheimer’s society has given its approval to the use of electronic tagging of dementia sufferers. I knew why instantly without reading the article – my Dad used…